The Burnout Level of The Teachers Who Work in The Centre of Kilis and The Research of The Factors Effecting Them

Abstract

This survey has been realized to study the burnout level of the teachers working at Kilis city centre and the factors affecting them. It concerns the 1198 teachers working in Kilis city centre in 2010-2011 and 1134 teachers have been reached. The results of the research are gathered throughout a direct observation of the teachers situating in the same room and asking them to answer the questions in the  questionaire which consist of the social and demographic aspects, secondly the factors which are thought to affect their exhaustions levels and thirdly, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questions. The analysis of the datums has been made by using a t test and one way variance analysis. 41.8% of the teachers who were involved in the research is female and 58.2% is male and their avarage age is 35.35±8.62. The burnout levels of the ones belonging to the whole of MBI base components who choose jobs unwillingly, who aren’t satisfied with the working situations and present education system, who haven’t been appreciated by their bosses have been found higher (p<0.05). To conclude, the emotional exhaustion points of the teachers working in Kilis city centre are found at an avarage level whereas their personal failure points are found lower in this survey. This research is the first burnout research made in Kilis City Centre; therefore it’s thought to be an example for next studies. Measuring the burnout faced in a teacher’s life, evaluation and mentioning organizational reasons are quite important. Therefore the results of this research have been thought to be useful as far as stopping and improving studies about burnout are concerned. They have also been thought to be important are concerned. The results have also been thought to be important being a helpful study for multidicipliner and various centred studies.